Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers

What we both missed is that messages aren’t between phone numbers or email addresses or specific devices — they’re between *people*. Phone numbers and email addresses are just identifiers used to address those people. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

On iOS Apps Peeking at Your Clipboard Contents

Link to: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linkedin-says-ios-clipboard-snooping-after-every-key-press-is-a-bug-will-fix/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Google is losing interest in Android

Link to: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/after-ios-14-theres-almost-no-reason-to-buy-an-android-phone-anymore | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Senate Republicans propose law to outlaw end-to-end encryption

Link to: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Rejection of Hey

I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases

I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Basecamp’s new app HEY flagged in App Store for not using in-app purchase

Link to: https://www.protocol.com/hey-email-app-store-rejection | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016

Link to: https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1271493543299698688 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Washington's Newest Landmark: Black Lives Matter Plaza

Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-black-lives-matter-street/2020/06/05/eb44ff4a-a733-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Amazon no longer puts order information in email confirmations

Link to: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/06/01/unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Facebook Employees Begin to Revolt

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/facebook-employee-protest-trump.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement

“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.” | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Apple engineer Jordyn Castor, who has been blind since birth, talks coding and accessibility

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETc6c9A-ibg&feature=youtu.be | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

‘What Time Is It in London?’

Every other service that tries to answer “What time is it in London?” gets it right. Only Siri gets it wrong. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Link to: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1263545804079464448 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

’Howard Stern Is Getting Ripped Off‘

Link to: https://medium.com/@awilkinson/howard-stern-is-getting-ripped-off-1b721cc2f3f2 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

How the FBI Cracked Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone: An Automated Passcode Guesser

Link to: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-cracked-another-iphone-it-s-still-not-happy-apple-n1209506 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Gruber: Department of Justice reopens spat with Apple over iPhone encryption

If law enforcement officials choose to wage a campaign to make strong encryption illegal under they guise that only “good guys” would have the circumvention keys, that’s on them, but news media need to get their shit together on the fact that what law enforcement claims to be ask … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google's Exposure Notification Project

“Unbending stance” is a rather harsh description of Apple and Google’s desire not to (a) “undermine people’s privacy” or (b) “drain phone battery life”. This isn’t an “unbending stance”. It’s table stakes for designing a system that people will actually install and use. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

‘Wut? ’ Indeed

Link to: https://giphy.com/posts/slack-adds-giphy-to-every-chatroom-wut | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break from Rivals

“Apple Is Approaching Return to Office Work Cautiously and Humanely, Just Like Other Companies in Tech, Albeit With the Added but Obvious Burden of Having More Employees Who Work on Hardware” isn’t much of a headline, though. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Let’s Check in on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance

What makes this situation unprecedented in personal computing history isn’t that one company has maintained a decade-long performance edge over the rest of the industry, but that that one company is keeping those chips exclusively for its own devices. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The Original iMac: 'Too Odd to Succeed'

Link to: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19980517&id=PyQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mf0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6529,3370268&hl=en | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Dithering

A new podcast from yours truly and Ben Thompson. Three times per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Microsoft Word Now Flags Two Spaces After a Period as an Error

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-two-spaces-period-error-correction-great-space-debate | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The 2020 iPhone SE

The iPhone SE is an excellent value if you’re fine with the smaller display and Touch ID instead of Face ID. It’s an astoundingly good value if you flat-out prefer the smaller form factor and familiar Touch ID experience. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The iPad Magic Keyboard

As a physical contraption the iPad Magic Keyboard is utterly brilliant. As a practical device for work, it feels seamlessly natural. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Gruber’s take on the new iPhone SE

There’s nothing new strategically about the new iPhone SE — it’s a nearly exact replay of the original SE strategy from 2016, before the iPhone X era began. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

COBOL, Programming, and Coding

Programming is an art and code is merely its medium. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The iPhone SE (2016)

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@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

There Is No Plan to Return to Normalcy in 2020

Link to: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases

Amazon has pulled a reverse Netflix. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Layoffs at The Omni Group

Link to: https://inessential.com/2020/03/31/looking_for_work | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Zoom Falsely Claims Its Group Video Can Be End-to-End Encrypted

Link to: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Zoom and Privacy

Zoom is popular, useful, and by their own admission not trustworthy. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Gruber: Curse words

Some pointers regarding cursors. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Google Cancels I/O Entirely

Link to: https://twitter.com/googledevs/status/1241077131993427968 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Netflix creates $100M Coronavirus Relief Fund

Link to: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/netflix-coronavirus-relief-fund-100-million-dollars-1203540530/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming

Link to: https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

MacBook Air

Faster, cheaper, and now with a truly great keyboard. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Gruber: How to correctly use a computer

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0P0FQ770dE | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Super Wednesday

New iPad Pros and MacBook Air, mouse pointer support in iPadOS 13.4, and the new Magic Keyboard with integrated trackpad for iPad Pros. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

The Talk Show: 'Chain of precision' ↦

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2020/03/17/ep-279 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

Contrary to Trump’s Claim, Google Isnt Building a Nationwide Coronavirus Website

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179118/google-coronavirus-testing-screening-website-drive-thru-covid-19 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

New Android Malware Can Steal Google Authenticator 2FA Codes

Link to: https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-malware-can-steal-google-authenticator-2fa-codes/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

What You See in the Finder should always be correct

The Finder should treat every bit of information it displays as though it’s as important as your bank account balance. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago

How to Enable the Mac Startup Chime on New Macs

Link to: https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-enable-the-mac-startup-chime-on-your-2016-macbook-pro/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 years ago